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Stone, Robert L., 1921-2009 to Jacob Stone and Beatrice Stone

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC09620.015 Author/Creator: Stone, Robert L., 1921-2009 Place Written: Nashville, Tennessee Type: Autograph letter signed Date: 24 March 1943 Pagination: 2 p. : envelope Height: 27.8 cm, Width: 19.6 cm Order a Copy PDF Download(s): Transcript of document

Addressed to "Dad and Bee." Mentions a phone call they had earlier that day. He apologizes for the late letter he wrote "last Saturday" (GLC9620.014). He hopes it will arrive shortly. Complains that he is one of twenty-five men left in this "god-forsaken place." Predicts that when they are shipped out, it "will either be to Santa Ana, CA or Elington Field, Texas." Both are large bombardier schools, and there's a rumor of a new school in Georgia that would be perfect because he can go home if he has a "few days pass." Chances are slim that he'll stay in the east. The camp is keeping them very busy between "drilling, calisthenics, lectures, gas-mask drills, and various other equally dull things." He closes the letter stating that the next letter they get in a week or so will hopefully be from a place other than Nashville.

Post-Script: Checks in on his brothers, Don and Jim, asking if they are in the army or the marines, or if Jim is going to college first.

The letter is written on stationary with "U.S. Army Air Forces" written in blue at the top of the letter, with the blue U.S. Army Air Forces logo. The date is written as "Wednesday Nite" but "Letters in a Box" notes the letter was written on March 24, 1943.

Stone, Robert L., 1921-2009
Stone, Beatrice Hecht Marks, 1901-1962
Stone, Jacob, fl. 1894-1985
Stone, Donald, 1925-2017

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